Nicholas Coghlan

You can see why some partners (such as 🇨🇦...) might want to give up on #SouthSudan. Or your could argue that we all thought independence was a good idea, applauded it, and should persevere for a while yet. 15 years is not that long in the life of a country.

"When The Gales of November Came Early..." It's the anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, which went down close to this spot on Lake Superior in 1975 (on a rather gloomier day...) ; as featured in Chapter 47 of "Under Wide And Starry Skies".

These days, if you're a town that wants to be on the tourist/Instagram circuit, you have to have one of these signs (wondering how long until we have one in downtown Ganges, Saltspring Island 😀)

90% of Warsaw's Old Town was destroyed in WW2. But it was painstakingly rebuilt from photos and old plans & eventually gained UNESCO World Heritage status as "an extraordinary symbol of national resilience and an exemplary model of urban conservation."

The powerful monument in Warsaw to the Uprising: the epic (failed) 63-day struggle in Aug/Sept 1944 to liberate the city from the Nazis before the arrival of the Soviet Red Army (which was sitting on the far bank of the River Vistula). Still the source of much bitterness in 🇵🇱.